quotations about beds
Bed is the poor man's opera.
ITALIAN PROVERB
The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.
LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ
Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir
My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint.
JOB
Job 7:13
My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I can make you truly happy, oh, how happy I'll make you, don't resist, remember how you moan with pleasure the instant we touch.
LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ
Fatigue Artist
You can be mad in the morning
Or the afternoon instead
But don't leave me
98 and 6 degrees of separation from you, baby
Come back to bed
JOHN MAYER
"Come Back to Bed"
If ye need aught, O strangers, speak; for here
Is all that's fitting for a houe like ours;
Warm baths and bed that giveth rest from toil
AESCHYLUS
The Libation-pourers
I'm still in bed writing this, lying on my back like an omelette in a pan.
ALAIN BREMOND-TORRENT
running is flying intermittently
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck,
Kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
SYLVIA PLATH
The Bell Jar
You rise to play and go to bed to work.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Othello
It was truly an abomination of nature that one always found the most comfortable spot in the bed five minutes before one had to leave it.
MIA RYAN
The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown
If a bed would tell all it knows, it would put many to the blush.
JAMES HOWELL
Proverbs
Oh, bed, oh, bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
THOMAS HOOD
Miss Kilmansegg: Her Dream
Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The Old Man and the Sea
I'll make your bed a place you can't wait to go
Softer than feathers and as sweet as a rose
DOLLY PARTON
"I'll Make Your Bed"
People who think of beds only in terms of sexual exercise or sleep simply do not understand that a bed is the best of all places for a philosophical discussion, an argument, and if necessary a showdown. It was not by chance that so many kings of old administered justice from their beds, and even today there is something splendidly parliamentary about an assembly of concerned persons in a bed.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
World of Wonders
In bed we laugh, in bed we cry,
And born in bed, in bed we die
THREE DOG NIGHT
"In Bed"
A bed has a friendly and benign look: it wishes to be kind.
T.F. POWYS
Unclay
If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
Zorba the Greek
She knows the heat of luxurious bed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Much Ado About Nothing
Bed of nails
Bed of nails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nail
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow
Gonna drive you like a hammer
ALICE COOPER
"Bed of Nails"